Le 2012-06-05 08:32, Daniel Isenmann a écrit :
Am 05.06.2012 14:26, schrieb Dave Reisner:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 02:23:34PM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: limits.conf and fork bombing Datum: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:15:26 +0200 Von: M0Rf30<morf3089@gmail.com> An: tpowa@archlinux.org
Could you insert a string into /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent a fork bombing attack? An example: * hard nproc 300 Thanks Best Regards Gianluca Boiano
Yeah, we've seen this before...
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25690
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Isn't this a task for the administrator of the computer? I don't see a reason, why we should add one for default in one of our packages.
Daniel +1 To do nothing. This is definitely an admin task.